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author | Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com> | 2012-03-09 17:02:37 +0200 |
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committer | Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> | 2012-03-25 20:33:28 +0200 |
commit | 8b28d50cdd1384893ec0565453eea77031aa7ec8 (patch) | |
tree | 1c6bcd46ea37a2d04a03369f6bc95840cdeda7c4 /documentation/Kconfig.tex | |
parent | 2172f61ede0ff7764eae39d4b75085c2dee9b610 (diff) |
Intel cpus: Fix deadlock on hyper-threading init
Only the BSP CPU was able to start its hyper-threading CPU siblings.
When an AP CPU attempts this it calls start_cpu() within start_cpu(),
deadlocking the system with start_cpu_lock.
At the time intel_sibling_init() is run, the BSP CPU is still
walking the cpu_bus linked list in lapic_cpu_init: start_other_cpus().
A sibling CPU appended at the end of this list will get started.
Also fail compile with #error if SERIAL_CPU_INIT==0, as microcode
updates on hyper-threading sibling CPUs must be serialized.
Tested with HT-enabled P4 Xeons on dual-socket604 platform.
Change-Id: I0053f58f49ed604605ce0a55e826d3e1afdc90b6
Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/775
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
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